Mama Jo and the fam!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

from Brazil...

Oí família Looks like home is a buzy place now. The bathroom does look a little bigger. That´s wierd that is hot there now, it´s probably about 90 here too. It hasn´t rained in a while and its just been hot now. Carneval is over and we can get back to teaching because i´m sure just about everyone needs to repent now. This week a guy in our ward recieved his mission call. He´s going to Rio de Janerio norte (River of January north). You should be glad i didn´t go there because rio is probably the most dangerous place besides the middle of the amazons. Some places the police aren´t even allowed to. He had to wait 4 months for his call and he is reporting to the ctm march 12 which is only 3 weeks after he got his call. We didn´t have any baptisms but the other elders in our house did. We were helping with the font because the drain was broken and elder souza was doing something and i don´t know what he was doing but a cement thing smashed his fingers and it was pretty bad. They were bleeding all over the place and his fingernails got all messed up too. But the baptism went on and he went to the doctor clinic place. But we taught a ton of lessons this week (41) and a bunch of novos (news) so hopefully we get some baptisms. But all is well here, anyone have any questions for me? Taking day by day because alot changes everyday. We still eat everyday. It´s weird, lunch only fell through once when elder wardrop was my comp., but lunch has already fallen through 4 times this transfer with elder silva. But everything is going well and hopefully i´ll have something cool to talk about next week. But until then. Talk to you all next week.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

The final game of the season...

Well... it was a great basketball game and we played hard... but we lost by one lousy point! Here are some pics...

the sneaky pass

Trent

Trent getting fouled

Tau

Trent going for the three

New paint...

With the wall project finished... now begins LOTS of painting... here is our lovely new shade of beige... the darker color is the new color:

Michelangelo... the great painter.. at work!

Saturday, February 28, 2009

More Friday...

Friday was a great day... the wall was finished, the girls and kids came over and we had lots of girl food ... little chicken thingys, pasta salads, jello, cookies, muffins, rice pudding... and crafts... we made our favorite block craft.

Yummy food

Tv watching and Wii playing

The crafting begins

crafts everywhere

Cute guys visit our girls activities

Some finished crafts

Our bedroom wall is all finished and textured...

This project was easy. We had a great company, Matchall Drywall, that I highly recommend. But now the rest is up to us... flooring, painting, shower, moulding, tiling etc etc etc. Wow... I better get busy!

Friday, February 27, 2009

It's Friday...

It's Friday... AND... I have a day off!!!! Yippee yahooo Yay!!!! I SOOOOOOO needed a day off especially after a 13 hour Monday... YUK!! Mike took yesterday off and I took today off to be home while our wall is moved. So I decided since I'm home I should invite all the girls over to eat and craft! They'll be getting here soon. But in the meantime... Here is our wall progress:

The great bathroom wall comes down.. you can tell how inky dinky the bathroom was

What a difference... just a couple feet makes it feel huge!

Starting to shape up

This is the bedroom side... Notice the outlet Mike put up high.... THAT'S for our future flat screen TV! Probably WAY in the future... but we'll be ready!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Free food...

I hope everyone has been taking advantage of all the free food promotions that have been going on. Yesterday Trent had several free tacos, (some things I won't eat, not even for FREE!) free donuts and free pancakes. We all know Trent can eat a LOT... so these freebies have been great for us! He will continue to be well fed this week with free burritos and subs. Who knows what is next! We are on a freebie frenzy at our house! Whoever said there's no such thing as a free lunch was wrong!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Basketball!

Well, it's the weekend and that means... sports! Trent had a couple basketball games... lost one and won one! Here are some amazing pics. Our ward is in blue jerseys....